JPH0630504Y2 - Vehicle door edge protector open position confirmation device - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Industrial application] The present invention relates to a device for confirming an open position of a door edge protector of a vehicle, and more specifically, for a vehicle body having a door edge protector attached to the door, the door is opened at night. The present invention relates to a device that makes it possible to easily confirm the position of the door edge protector while the door is open, and to make it easy to recognize the presence or absence of the door opening and its position.

[Conventional technology]

A door of an automobile has a door glass that moves up and down, and a door sash portion that guides the up and down movement of the door glass and holds the periphery of the door glass at a position where the door glass is lifted is provided. The door is formed by combining panel materials.For example, in a press door in which a pillar portion and a door sash portion are integrally formed by press working, the upper portion of the door sash portion is bent inward, A door edge portion is formed so as to cover the side edge of the roof when the door is closed. The structure of such a door sash portion is disclosed in Japanese Utility Model Laid-Open No. 60-81026 and is already well known.

[Problems to be solved by the device]

By the way, if the parting gap between the door edge portion and the roof is large, the door edge portion will not look good. Therefore, as described above, the door edge portion is formed to cover the side edge of the roof. Therefore, the edge of the door has a slightly sharpened appearance, and in order to soften its sharpness,
It is often covered with a door edge protector made of rubber or the like.

On the other hand, the door may be left open temporarily in the dark such as at night, but at that time, the person who approaches the vehicle may touch the door or inadvertently leave the door open by overlooking that the door is open. It may hit you. It is necessary to open and close the door of the car, and this is unavoidable. However, even if a third party passing beside the stopped vehicle notices that the door is open at the time of approaching the vehicle, there is a case where there is no room to avoid it. Therefore,
When there is a car with the door open, it is desirable that a person passing by in a dark place can confirm the overhang of the door before approaching the vehicle.
Of course, even those who get in and out of the car can quickly recognize the position of the door, and if they can confirm that the door remains open at a position away from the car, quick action not to obstruct the passage It is extremely effective in preventing forgetting to close the door. Therefore, it is desired to develop a means for confirming the open / closed state of the door, which has such a simple structure and enables such identification easily.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and its purpose is to make it difficult for an occupant or a third party to confirm that the door of a vehicle that is parked in a dark place such as night is open. When the vehicle is on, it is possible to easily confirm that the door is open even from a position away from the vehicle and from an approaching position, and the position of the upper edge of the open door can be easily identified, so (EN) Provided is a device for confirming an opening position of a vehicle door edge protector, which is designed to facilitate a getting on / off operation.

[Means for Solving the Problems]

INDUSTRIAL APPLICABILITY The present invention is applied to a vehicle in which a door edge protector is attached to a door edge portion of a door having a door sash portion for guiding and holding a door glass. And, in order to achieve the above-mentioned subject, it has taken the constitution below.

An optical fiber line is routed along the door edge protector, and the optical fiber line is subjected to roughening to remove a part of the clad covering the surface thereof. Connect the fiber optic line to a light source that emits light when the door opens,
With the door opened, the light conducted to the optical fiber line causes a part of the optical fiber line attached to the door edge protector to emit light.

[Action]

If you open the door when the car is parked in a dark time such as at night or in a dark place, light will be sent from the light emission source to the optical fiber line. The light conducts through the optical fiber line and leaks from a portion where a part of the clad covering the surface is removed.

A person passing by in the vicinity of the vehicle can see that a part of the door edge protector is lit and can recognize that the door is open before approaching the vehicle.

When the door is closed, no light is emitted from the light source and the useless light is turned off.

[Effect of device]

A person passing by in the dark near a car will see some of the door edge protectors glowing before approaching a car with an open door. Therefore, it is possible to confirm that the door is open, call attention to the traffic by itself, and it is also easy to avoid the door and pass through a distant position.

Even those who get in and out of the car can know the height of the door and the degree of opening and closing in advance, so that the opening height to the passenger compartment can be easily discerned through it, and unconsciously enough to bend down when getting in and out. You can take

When the door is closed, the lighting of the door edge protector is stopped, and unnecessary lights for driving or people around the vehicle are turned off to avoid unnecessary confusion and misunderstanding.

〔Example〕

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail based on embodiments shown in the drawings.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the door 3 provided with the door sash portion 2 that constitutes the frame body of the door glass 1 as viewed from the vehicle compartment side. The door 3 is, for example, a press door, and the door sash portion 2 and the door body 4 are integrally formed. The door sash part 2 is composed of a front rising part 2a, an upper bridging part 2b and a rear rising part 2c.
As shown in FIG. 1, a door edge portion 5 is formed on the outer circumference thereof.

The door edge portion 5 has a joining structure in which the outer periphery of the outer panel 7 is hemmed to the outer periphery of the inner panel 6 in FIG. 1 showing a cross section taken along the line I-I of FIG.
Since the door edge portion 5 is formed so as to be pointed upward inward, a door edge protector 8 covering the portion is attached. This door edge protector 8
Is an edge cover made of rubber and having substantially the same cross section. When the door 3 is in a closed state, the entire edge of the door sash portion 2 is faced with the weather strip 10 attached to the side edge of the roof panel 9. It is installed so as to cover the surroundings.

On the inner surface of the door sash portion 2 as described above, some optical fiber lines 11 and 11 are arranged in a row.
As shown in FIG. 4, the optical fiber line 11 is covered with a clad 13 for each one of the glass cores 12 through which light passes,
The conducting light flux 14 is prevented from being scattered or leaking to the outside. However, the clad 13 covering the glass core 12 is removed by intentionally roughening the surface of the optical fiber line 11. As a result, a part of the amount of light transmitted through the glass core 12 of the optical fiber line 11 can be leaked to the outside from the roughened portion 15.

The optical fiber line 11 is connected to a light emitting source 18 (see FIG. 2), which will be described later, which emits light when the door 3 is opened, and when the door 3 is opened, the light conducted to the optical fiber line 11 is used. The optical fiber line 11 attached to the door edge protector 8 is designed to appear as if it is partially emitting light. In the example shown in FIG. 1, the inner surface of the door edge protector 8 emits light,
As shown in FIG. 5, when the optical fiber wires 11 are attached to both inner and outer side surfaces, not only the inner surface which is roughened,
The outer surface can also be made to emit light at a desired position. The optical fiber line 11 may be pre-molded on the door edge protector 8, or may be attached to the door edge protector 8 before being mounted on the vehicle body or the door edge protector 8 in a state of being mounted on the vehicle body with an adhesive or the like. It may be attached. In any case, since the conspicuous side is roughened, a sticking method that allows light leakage from that part is adopted.

In the light emitting area of the optical fiber line 11, the optical fiber lines 11 and 11 closely arranged in a row are subjected to roughening processing of the same length to form a rectangular roughened portion as shown in FIG. 6 (a). It should be 15A. As shown in FIG. 6 (b),
It is also possible to use the roughened portion 15B in which the characters "CAUTION" and "caution" stand out. Further, as shown in FIG. 6 (c), a roughened portion 15C having a certain area is provided, and a character or pattern-removing film 16 is attached to the surface of the roughened portion 15C so that the figure portion seems to emit light. You can also show it.

Such a light emitting portion of the roughened portion 15 may be provided only on the upper transition portion 2b of the door sash portion 2, or may be provided on the front rising portion 2a or the rear rising portion 2c. In any case, the inside and outside surfaces of the door edge protector 8 are secured to have substantially the same width over the entire door sash portion 2, and it is necessary to select a position where effective attention can be given so that the light is emitted. You can For example, if a certain number of light emitting points are provided in the upper crossing section 2b and several points in the rear upright section 2c, the height of the door 3 and the vehicle body will be increased for passengers getting on and off and a third person passing near the vehicle. There is an advantage that it is possible to confirm at a glance the amount of overhang, that is, the degree of opening and closing of the door.

By the way, from the viewpoint of energy saving, it is also preferable that the light emitting source for sending light to the optical fiber line 11 emits a light beam when the door 3 is opened and does not send light when the door 3 is closed. It can be said that it is also preferable from the viewpoint of avoiding unnecessary attention to the passengers and third parties. Therefore, as shown in FIG.
Door courtesy lamp 17 provided on the passenger compartment side of the door 3
It just needs to be operated in the same way as the above. Therefore, the light emission source 18, which is controlled similarly to the operation control of the door courtesy lamp 17, is provided in the door body 4 as shown in FIGS. 2 and 7. Further, as shown in FIG. 8, the door courtesy lamp 17 itself is diverted as a light emitting source, or, as shown in FIG. 9, a cord 19 branched from a power line for the door courtesy lamp is used as a light emitting source. When the door is connected, the control unit for making the door 3 emit light or turn off each time the door 3 is opened and closed can be shared with the door courtesy lamp 17.

By the way, there is a limit to the amount of light that can be sent from the light-emitting sources 17, 18 and 20, or if a large decrease in the amount of light sent due to light leakage in the rough surface processing section 15 described above cannot be avoided, or
When the door edge protector 8 has a large number of light emitting points, it is not limited to one lamp 18 as shown in FIG.
As shown in FIGS. 1 to 9, the door courtesy lamp 17 or the light source 18,
18, it is preferable to connect the light emitting sources 20 and 20. In addition,
When the door courtesy lamp 17 is used, both end surfaces of the optical fiber 11 may be installed so as to face the lamp 17.

According to the open position confirmation device of the door edge protector 8 having such a configuration, it is possible to call attention to the fact that the door 3 is opened as follows.

When the door 3 is opened when it is dark such as at night or when the vehicle is parked in a dark place, light is emitted from the light emitting source 18 shown in FIG. The light flux 14 [see FIG. 4] is conducted through the optical fiber line 11 and leaks from the roughened portion 15 in which a part of the cladding 13 covering the surface thereof is removed [see FIG. 3].

A person passing near the vehicle can recognize that the door edge protector 8 is partly lit and that the door is open and the degree of its opening before approaching the vehicle. . When the light emitting point is the inner side surface of the door edge protector 8, in order to call attention to people coming from behind the car or other vehicles, and when the light is emitted from the outer side surface,
It is possible to call attention to people who came from before. In this way, since it is possible to confirm that the door 3 is open, it is possible to call attention to those who pass by, and it is also easy to notify the passenger to pass through a position away from the door 3 so as to avoid it.

For those who get in and out of the car, the height and the degree of opening and closing of the door 3 can be known in advance, through which the opening height of the passenger compartment when getting in and out of the car can be easily identified, and the body can be identified when getting in and out. You can know the extent to which you can bend down or extend without paying close attention.

Since the optical fiber line 11 itself is extremely thin, even if it is attached to the surface of the door edge protector 8, that portion is not bulky, and the attachment can be easily performed by the method described above. Further, even if a person getting on or off the vehicle touches the door edge protector 8, there is no electric shock or a burn. It is also easy to arbitrarily select the number of emitted light and the light emitting position according to the amount of light that can be sent. Of course, it is also possible to change the light-transmitting color between the left and right doors, or change the light-transmitting color between a part of the lined optical fiber lines and the rest with one door.

When the door 3 is closed, the light emission from the light source 18 and the like is automatically stopped, and unnecessary light in the door edge protector 8 is erased, which may cause unnecessary confusion or misunderstanding to a third party. Avoided.

In the above description, the press door which is often formed with the door edge portion was described as an example, but not limited to such a door, the door sash portion and the door body portion are independently molded, and then the Even in a door in which both are integrated by welding or the like, the open position confirmation device of the present invention can be applied around the door sash portion.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an upper part of a door equipped with a door edge protector open position confirming device according to the present invention, and is a sectional view taken along the line I-I in FIG. 3, and FIG. FIG. 3 is a partially enlarged view of the door sash portion including the upper transition portion, FIG. 4 is a longitudinal sectional view showing an optical fiber line exaggeratedly, and FIG. 5 is II of FIG.
An example of attaching wirings of different optical fiber lines at a position corresponding to the line arrow, FIG. 6 (a) is an explanatory view of a light emitting portion by roughening processing formed on the optical fiber line row attached to the door edge protector, FIG. 6 ( b) is an example in which a character is formed by rough surface processing to emit light, FIG. 6 (c) is an example in which a character or a pattern-excluding film is attached to the rough surface processed portion, and FIG. The vehicle compartment side perspective view of the example door provided,
FIG. 8 shows an example in which a door courtesy lamp is used as a light emitting source.
The figure shows an example in which the light emitting source is turned on by the power supply from the power line for the door courtesy lamp. 1 ... Door glass, 2 ... Door sash part, 3 ... Door, 5 ... Door edge part, 8 ... Door edge protector, 11 ... Optical fiber line, 13 ... Clad, 1
5, 15A to 15C ... Roughened part, 17 ... Door courtesy lamp (light emitting source), 18 ... Light emitting source, 20 ... Lamp (light emitting source).

Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] 1. In an automobile having a door edge protector attached to a door edge portion of a door having a door sash portion for guiding and holding a door glass, an optical fiber line is wired along the door edge protector, The optical fiber line is roughened to remove a part of the clad covering the surface of the optical fiber line, and the optical fiber line is connected to a light source that emits light when the door is opened. A device for confirming an open position of a door edge protector of a vehicle, wherein a part of an optical fiber line attached to the door edge protector emits light by the light conducted to the optical fiber line.